Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and music by Woody

we're on the subject of hard work, I just wanted
to say that I was a man to work.

I was working and I worked my way up by hard
work. I ain't never got nowhere yet but I got by
work.

Work of the hardest kind. I been down and I out
and I've been busted, disgusted and be trusted.

I my way up and I worked my way down. I've
been drunk and I've been sober. I've had hard
and I got and been robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way into and outta jail and I woke up
a lotta and I didn't even know where I was at.

But the hardest work I ever done is when I was
to get myself a worried woman to my worried
mind.

Now I'm tell you just about how much hard
work I had to do to get this here woman I'm a-tellin'
you about.

I shook hands 97 of her kinfolks and her blood
relatives and I done the same 86 people that was
just her and her neighbors.

Kissed 73 babies and put dry on 34 of 'em, as well
as others, and done the When several times, as well
as a lot of other things about like this.

I held 125 head of wild horses, put and bridles
on more than that, some of the craziest,
wildest teams in the country. I rode 14 loco
broncos to a dead standstill and let 42 dogs lick
me all over.

7 times I was bit by hungry dogs and I was
all to pieces by water and rattlesnakes on
2 separate bottoms.

I chopped and I 314 arm loads of stoved
wood; 100 of coal, and I carried a gallon of
kerosene 18 and lost a good pair of shoes in a
mud hole.

And I chopped and I weeded 48 rows of cotton,
13 of bad corn and cut the sticker weeds out of
11 back yards, all on account a 'cause I to
show her that I was a man and I to work

I out 9 barnloads, and cranked 31 automobiles,
all makes and models, pulled 3 out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

I dug 5 of water for some of her friends and
and run all kinds of errands.

I the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I joined
11 separate denominations. I signed up and
up for 7 of the trade unions I could find and paid
my dues about 6 weeks of time, waded 40
miles of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked 2
ranges and crossed 3 deserts.

I got the fever and I got the sun and I got the
and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and
skeeter bit, the poison ivy and the 7 year and the
staggers.

I was given up for lost and about 2 dozen times.
Struck by lightning, by Congress, struck
by friends and kinfolks, as as by 3 cars on
the highways and a lotta in peoples'
henhouses.

I been hit and run and run over and
walked on and knocked around and I'm
settin' now trying to study up what else I
can do to show that woman that I still ain't
of work.